Yet none of these US war criminals, complicit in Saddam's atrocities, will ever stand trial for their crimes. It is just victor's justice metted out not because Saddam was a brutal tyrant but because he got in the way of the American Empire. If the US government was really interested in justice they'd be putting Cheney, Rumsfeld, etc. on trial as well.
The official status of Saddam, according to Rumsfeld, is that he's not a Prisoner of War but will be given the same rights as a POW. This is part of the general strategy of the Bush administration to destroy the Geneva accords, including the Guantanamo detainees. Denying that captives in a war are POWs is a step towards abolishing rights for POWs. Once it's generally accepted that they're no longer considered POWs the US now has greater standing to deny them their rights, since they're no longer recognized as POWs. Of course this only applies to the US, Amerika still expects other countries to give American POWs their same rights. Back in March the US government & media were whining about how Iraq was putting American POWs on T.V., alleging that this violated their rights. Yet the US has put Saddam on TV and there hasn't been a peep from the media or the government who were whining about Iraq doing it. Apparently when the US does it to other countries the media & government think it's okay, but when other countries do it to the US it suddenly becomes wrong.
